This quick start guide is a detailed instruction of setting up RocketMQ messaging system on your local machine to send and receive messages.
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The following softwares are assumed installed:
Click here to download the 4.4.0 source release. Also you could download a binary release from here.
Now execute the following commands to unpack 4.4.0 source release and build the binary artifact.
> unzip rocketmq-all-4.4.0-source-release.zip > cd rocketmq-all-4.4.0/ > mvn -Prelease-all -DskipTests clean install -U > cd distribution/target/apache-rocketmq
> nohup sh bin/mqnamesrv & > tail -f ~/logs/rocketmqlogs/namesrv.log The Name Server boot success...
> nohup sh bin/mqbroker -n localhost:9876 & > tail -f ~/logs/rocketmqlogs/broker.log The broker[%s, 172.30.30.233:10911] boot success...
Before sending/receiving messages, we need to tell clients the location of name servers. RocketMQ provides multiple ways to achieve this. For simplicity, we use environment variable NAMESRV_ADDR
> export NAMESRV_ADDR=localhost:9876 > sh bin/tools.sh org.apache.rocketmq.example.quickstart.Producer SendResult [sendStatus=SEND_OK, msgId= ... > sh bin/tools.sh org.apache.rocketmq.example.quickstart.Consumer ConsumeMessageThread_%d Receive New Messages: [MessageExt...
> sh bin/mqshutdown broker The mqbroker(36695) is running... Send shutdown request to mqbroker(36695) OK > sh bin/mqshutdown namesrv The mqnamesrv(36664) is running... Send shutdown request to mqnamesrv(36664) OK